One Eye Opened in That Other Place by Christi Nogle

(Flame Tree Press, 2024)

Reviewed by Steven French

It hasn’t been that long since a collection of Christi Nogle’s stories was last reviewed here (see BSFA Review 21, Summer 2023: review of The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future), so some readers, at least, may know what to expect: creepiness aplenty, occasionally transitioning to the explicitly weird and disturbing. This latest compilation was influenced, we are told, by the Covid-19 pandemic and ‘the way that it forced us to reimagine our lives’. To be honest, it is not always straightforward to discern such forced reimagining as a unifying theme in what is, in the end, a rather disparate, if overall unsettling, set of twenty-seven pieces, of wildly assorted lengths.

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Review from BSFA Review 24 - Download your copy here.